Working with remote team members and freelancers can be a challenging task, especially if your team is fairly big and spread throughout the world. The most problematic part of managing a virtual team is choosing the right communication platform and eradicating technical barriers from the usual work flow.

Google+ hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. However, with features such as free videoconferencing and the capability to share and promote content with customers and colleagues at a touch of a (+1) button, Google+ is making a concerted effort to court businesses. We look at nine ways it can help you succeed in business.

Google+ hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. However, with features such as free videoconferencing and the capability to share and promote content with customers and colleagues at a touch of a (+1) button, Google+ is making a concerted effort to court businesses. We look at nine ways it can help you succeed in business.

When we launched Google+ pages in November, we also released Google+ badges to promote your Google+ presence right on your site. Starting today in developer preview (and soon available to all your users), we're adding more options for integrating the Google+ badge into your website. You can configure a badge with a width that fits your site design and choose a version that works better on darker sites. You'll also see that Google+ badges now include the unified +1 and circle count that we added to Pages last month.

It has been over 9 weeks since we had an official Google Panda update. Now I am seeing some chatter in the forums of a possible sign that Google had updated the Panda algorithm and pushed a new one out - this would be version 3.2 or higher.

Members of the Senate are rushing for the exits in the wake of the Internet's unprecedented protest of the Protect IP Act (PIPA). At least 13 members of the upper chamber announced their opposition on Wednesday.

Increasingly over the years, search engines - Google in particular - have given more and more support to SEOs and publishers. But 2011 marked the first significant reversal that I can recall, with both linking and keyword data being withheld. Here's what happened, why it matters and how publishers can push back if Google and Bing don't change things.

Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about.

I have been fortunate enough to have Travled Around the world twice in my life, visited 38 Countries, met amzing people, experienced what life is really about. the point of this is not to boast or brag, but to motivate anyone, espeically the youth to GET OUT and Travel the World.

Unfortunately, he said that he will be closing down i.ph soon so it would be best for me to start copy pasting all my posts and blog files. I couldn't believe it. He said i.ph is no longer making profit and he's giving us bloggers around 6 months before it fully shuts down.

Where did this idea of Christmas come from? Why do has this original spirt of Christmas turned into this massive commercial mess? Not trying to be a Ba humbug, but its reality. What do we really need? Do we need more material possessions, more debt, more stuff? What we need is more culture, more love, more values, and a true selfless spirit of giving without expectations for getting something in return.